It’s what he said though.
Optimism
Easton Kelly
Jaxson Myers
Fall of Eagles
Nicholas Reyes
we chose hell
Cameron Nelson
Trotsky himself told in the transitional program that "the conditions of socialism were rotting". It is one thing, I think to have an optimistic propaganda (absolutely necessary) and to have a pessimistic theory.
There is an alternative. Dialectical materialism means either you move forward, either backwards (Middle Ages is a period of reflux of production). What is reactionary is fighting for that future, not thinking it's a possibility.
Adam Smith
first of all this pic is wrong. serfdom predates slavery.
second of all societies can regress just as likely as they can progress. all Marx said is that communism is brought by historical necessity + class consciousness, and capitalist societies have found ways to severely undermine the latter.
Henry Jackson
The ideology of the far-right outside of America and former Soviet bloc countries is basically either nazbol that cares more about culture than economics, or socdem but only for white people. So they at least aren't American conservative neolibs.
The concept of "slave societies" is probably the worst part of Marx's historiography, it's certainly the part that irritates me the most.
Andrew Campbell
We already have the technology to stop climate change and habitat destruction and aren't using it, you fucking retard.
Ethan Clark
Could it be that slavery or serfdom were both dependent on circumstances, where the economic exploitation was needed?
Serfs are better suited for agricultural production, when they can easily be bound to land and trade is minimal.
The Marxian Economic book that I read specifically mentions that in medieval Bohemia around years 900-1200 or at the same time period in Novgorod Rus, there was a working slave trade, which we were never told in History classes that it existed, that slavery was only a thing in Greece and Middle East.
So even Slaves and Serfs existed in both same time and place.
Where does being a tenant farmer fit into this? As in like the Joads from Grapes of Wrath, but 1000 years earlier. Yeomen free farmers falling into debt trap are of course a step towards either serfdom or slavery.
Josiah Nelson
Ohhh you're dumb, got it.
Julian Thompson